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Vintage 1935 Records Of The Court Of New Castle Delaware Vol II HC Law History
Brand/Publisher: Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; Author: Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; Title: Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware Vol. II 1681-1699 Land and Probate Abstract Only; Topic: colonial American law, Delaware court records, land and probate history, genealogy.
1935 United States cloth-bound Volume II in the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania's edition of the seventeenth-century Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, focusing on land and probate material for the years 1681 through 1699.
Title page reads Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware Vol. II 1681-1699 Land and Probate Abstract Only, published by the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania and printed by The Tribune Publishing Company, Meadville, Pa., 1935.
Copyright statement notes Copyright, 1934 by the Colonial Society of Penna., and a limitation page records that 500 Copies Printed For Members of the Society Only were issued, with this volume designated as copy number 201.
Physical format: dark green cloth hardcover boards with textured cloth covering, untrimmed deckle-edge leaves, and substantial English-language text printed on heavy cream stock suitable for scholarly reference use.
Front matter includes a facsimile plate reproducing an original seventeenth-century manuscript page together with introductory notes outlining the archival sources and editorial approach employed for the New Castle court records.
Main contents present chronological abstracts of proceedings before the Court of New Castle on Delaware relating to land conveyances, mortgages, wills, probate matters, estate settlements, and associated orders and judgments between 1681 and 1699.
Several sections incorporate tabular lists of land lots, tithables, and other assessments, supplying detailed information on colonial property holdings, taxpayers, and legal transactions in New Castle and its surrounding territory.
Subject and collecting interest: specialized colonial American legal and local history reference work for Delaware, of particular appeal to historians, genealogists, legal scholars, and collectors of limited-edition publications of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania.
Condition: Dark green cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with rubbing, frayed cloth and small losses at the spine ends, and softened, rubbed corners plus light wear along the bottom edges. Deckled page edges are age toned consistent with 1935 printing. Title page has a faint stain near the lower fore-edge margin and a few interior leaves show small spots, yet the text and tables remain clear and legible on the pages shown. Front inner hinge paper has a long crease and a short closed tear near the foot, but the sewn binding is secure on the inspected leaves. Volume II only of the series; book is offered as a standalone cloth hardcover without a dust jacket.
